Jenny Coe-Munro was just 17 when she started asking her parents to let her go to the Tent Embassy.

Her older brother and sister were heavily involved in the Indigenous community, and had a role in establishing the Aboriginal Legal Service in 1969. They were also involved in planning and establishing the embassy itself, so when they passed through Cowra in 1972 on their way to Canberra, Jenny was keen to tag along.

Her parents agreed on the condition that they came along to chaperone Jenny and her younger siblings - which is how the whole family came to be present during the demonstrations in July 1972.

Ms Coe-Munro has spent her life actively involved in Indigenous affairs, inspired by the events she witnessed there.